The hospital was a hospital like any other in a big city. It had a sinister look, bleak, repulsive, of things that are done by necessity, an obligation … Inside didn’t fit the generous impulse of the heart, but the technique, science, the regulation.” Domingos Monteiro – Tales and Drama, Vol, 1943
The text above was the starting point of this project. We were asked to build a pediatric wing on a very damaged XIX century hospital. The idea was to create a building that didn’t look like a hospital, where children and adults feld as if they were at…...